Rep. Vikki Goodwin for Lt. Governor of Texas! A 4-term progressive fighter, Rep. Vikki Goodwin has consistently put working Texans over corporate interests. In the Legislature, she’s championed strong public education, healthcare, housing, & critical water & energy systems. Vote on March 3.

Downhill indeed. Tip of the Cub cap Dr Plotkin.

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

Yesterday folks asked me who is keeping track of the invasion prosecutions. Here, @brittnymejia.bsky.social profiles the Federal Public Defenders who keep kicking Bill Essayli's fanny in LA. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Same rules at the Rkfd IL YMCA in the sixties, run by the NRA when they were safety first organization and not a gun lobby tool.

"Populist politics, online disinformation, cyber warfare, & cryptocurrency were all just scaffolding for his work as a financier and sex trafficker. A way to destabilize the global order, make connections with the world’s elites, and continue enriching himself and preying on vulnerable young girls."

His people in the old country would refer to him as a bawbag.

"When in doubt, draw a distinction." Not sure where he got it, but in grad school one of my teachers taught me that. This (long) thread is about the key distinctions I rely on as a critic. There's a Twitter version from 2021. This one builds on that one. I will post them one at a time. Ready?

Black History Month is a time to recognize the lived, shared experience of all Black folks who have fundamentally shaped, challenged, and ultimately strengthened America. It’s about taking an unvarnished look at the past so that we can create a better future.

The Epstein files are dripping out again. This one that mentions Trump is incredibly disturbing.

Genuinely interesting. Kristi Noem is snitching that Stephen Miller is the one who made up the bullshit about Alex Pretti. It would be genuinely useful if Congress can get her to admit that he has been dictating ALL OF THIS just like he dictated the murderboats. www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...

Please don’t reply with AI renderings

"The UN Charter, adopted by the Senate 89-2 in 1945, giving it also the force of U.S. law, bans the US from issuing the 'threat or use of force against the territorial integrity' of a nonoffending member state...This isn’t international law, MAGA types, it’s US law." www.wsj.com/opinion/gree...

Bob Dylan writing about Bob Weir in The Philosophy of Modern Song

WaPo. catalogs who left govt and via what means. These will be useful to show that Trump effected a SHIFT--from spending on things that help people (like VA care) TO snatching grannies. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Bari Weiss continues her drive to turn CBS News in Trump TV x.com/TaraSetmayer...

Who knows this schmuck?

I couldn’t have put it in any better perspective.

Well put, well said.

Reup: Trump's Selective Drug Enforcement in Latin America One nifty thing abt Maduro's known 2020 indictment is it cited trafficking drugs THROUGH Honduras, whence Juan Orlando Hernández was just pardoned so he could help Peter Thiel destroy government. www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/03/t...

Don't give clicks to the National Review for the stupid "hire professors by SAT scores" article. It is so completely ignorant that it is transparently clickbait.

And the grift goes on

It's absolutely true this is horrifying. It's also true that the NEED to spend this $$ (beyond whatever incentive arises from graft ProPublica already described) arises from the way ICE goons have become toxic. Plus now we can attack the waste fraud and abuse.

OTD in 1958 at 4:35 PM MST at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, experienced chemist Cecil Kelley, 38, stood on a step ladder peering through a viewport into a 1,000-liter stainless steel tank holding what he believed to be dilute aqueous and organic plutonium solutions as he switched on the stirrer.

Definitely going in as Nr1 on my reading list for 2026

If you think of it make it 2

Between raids like this and the stubborn abuse of Jim Comey and Dan Richman's 4A rights, it's clear the remedies for deliberate abuse need to be expanded.

This piece cites 13 insightful pieces on Miller from this year, plus a bunch of other stories that mention Miller's pathologies (such as how he views the murderboat campaign as an opportunity to make Latinos look criminal). www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/27/w...

For a post on big gaps in reporting on Stephen Miller's reign this year, I went to Wikipedia to see if IT cited some of the articles I remember but couldn't find. It incorporates almost none of the abundant reporting on Miller from this year. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen...

“It is often precisely the wealthiest who oppose the realization of social justice or integral ecology out of sheer greed.” — Pope Francis, 2024

This message hits hard.

We can’t blame any nation for not trusting the United States under Trump. I just hope they forgive us after he’s gone, quickly.

Over the Chicago River and thru the hoods.

On it.

An addendum to today's post paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-pro-...

Christ on a bike, this is brilliant. And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

Looking for the truth about what it was like inside CECOT? Earlier this year, we spoke to the men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador. Hear about what they endured, in their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ

High quality rip of the 60 Minutes CECOT segment: drive.google.com/file/d/1lKjJ...

CBS News' legal department spending their entire holiday season issuing takedown notices

ask and you shall receive (via Evan Rosenfeld over at the other place)

Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.

Please help if you can 💔

One way to make Trump pay for trying to indict those who tried to hold him accountable is to make sure it backfires, to make sure his prosecutions make those targets rock stars. So a good night to share this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIbf...

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

Amid unprecedented hiring push, ICE and CBP both lose HR chiefs www.govexec.com/management/2...

Trump's Autopen anntelnaes.substack.com/p/trumps-put...

Fall leaf cleanup, beautiful weather here in Madtown this weekend.

That's not right.